Salato Field Notebook
Grades 4-7
Answer Key
1.
Find our working
beehive. Observe that some bees are moving in a pattern. What is this movement
called and what is its purpose?
Answer: A dance
that communicates where food (nectar) has been found.
2.
How many species of
frogs can you find in the Eastern Kentucky Forest diorama?
Answer: 7.
3.
Find an animal that
is camouflaged. Sketch the animals and its habitat.
Answer: Many
animals are camouflaged in the exhibit – 3 snakes, 2 lizards, 5 frogs, 5 birds
and a turtle.
4.
Estimate the ratio of
trees to forbes (broad-leaved plants) under the American Elm tree.
Answer: Approximately 10 to 1
(seasonally dependent).
5.
What percentage of
the birds hanging from the ceiling is carnivorous?
Answer: 9 raptors + 1
woodpecker + 1 heron = 11; 11/32 = 34%.
What clues did you use to
determine which birds eat meat?
Answer: Raptors- sharp hooked
beak and talons for killing and tearing apart prey; Woodpecker- long sharp bill
for picking insects from holes in bark; Heron- long bill for catching fish.
6.
Which of the venomous
snakes is found only in western Kentucky?
Answer: Cottonmouth.
7.
How does the shape of
deer antlers differ from elk antlers?
Answer: Deer antlers lean
forward like a basket on top of the animal’s head and elk antlers sweep
backwards along the animal’s back.
8.
What does restore
mean?
Answer: To put
back.
Name two animals
that have been restored to Kentucky.
Answer: Elk,
walleye, muskellunge, white-tailed deer, peregrine falcon, river otter, ruffed
grouse, wild turkey.
9.
What
foods were important to native Kentuckians?
Answer: Corn, beans, squash,
gourds, nuts and sunflower.
10.
Describe some things
you saw in the Wildlife Viewing Area.
Answer: Some possibilities are birds (many
kinds), mammals (chipmunk, squirrel, mink, raccoon, rabbit), reptiles (turtle,
frog, snake), insects (butterflies, dragonflies, bees, flies), plants (trees,
bushes, wildflowers, grasses, water plants), pond, waterfall, rocks, soil,
birdfeeders.
